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Monday, August 07, 2006

Up next: Attendants at Northwest

Up next: Attendants
In StarTribune.com Business
Flight attendant Karen Schultz has spent 21 years as the smiling public face of Northwest Airlines. Now she's getting ready to train for guerrilla-style strikes like walkouts aimed at causing problems for the airline and its passengers. "Striking makes me nervous, but I'm ready," said Schultz, who lives in Minneapolis but flies out of Detroit. But first, there'll be a showdown Wednesday in federal bankruptcy court. Northwest Airlines will argue that it's illegal for the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA) to strike the company while in bankruptcy, where it has sought and won la

 



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